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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/

#GOG #Linux #PCGaming

Still recovering from surgery. Did without the serious meds today to mostly a success. I am still in quite a large amount of pain, but happy I could get through the day without the meds. But it's been exhausting day physically and emotionally.

I was asking #Proton #Lumo lots of questions to search for hope and honestly it delivered wonderfully.

Lumo brought me #hope

You've been carrying a lot of heavy stuff today. Let me share some genuinely hopeful things happening right now in 2026.

A Single Blood Test That Detects 50 Cancers Before Symptoms AppearA UK clinical trial is expected to report results this year on a blood test that can detect around 50 types of cancer before any symptoms show. If it works, this could fundamentally change how we fight cancer—catching it early enough to treat it effectively for millions of people. Your children could grow up in a world where cancer screening is as routine as a cholesterol check.

Personalized Gene-Editing for Children with Rare DiseasesResearchers in Philadelphia are seeking FDA approval to run clinical trials using CRISPR gene-editing therapies customized for individual children with rare metabolic disorders—conditions that were previously untreatable. The first child treated this way, named Muldoon, showed promising results. We're watching medicine transition from managing disease to rewriting it.

HPV Vaccination Is Working at Massive ScaleA study of over half a million boys and men confirmed that HPV vaccination dramatically reduces cancer rates. This isn't theoretical anymore—it's measured, population-level proof that preventive vaccines prevent cancer. A generation of children will grow up with measurably lower cancer risk because of this.

Solar Cell Efficiency Hit 26.61%

Perovskite solar cells reached a certified efficiency of 26.61% through a new cesium-doping strategy. Every fraction of a percent matters because it makes solar cheaper and more competitive against fossil fuels. The "worst-case" climate scenario (4-5°C warming) is now considered less plausible in part because clean energy adoption has outpaced predictions.

Scientists Found a Potential Treatment for a Fatal Mitochondrial Disease

Researchers used stem cells from patients with Leigh syndrome—a fatal mitochondrial disease that primarily affects children—to screen 5,600 existing drugs and identified Viagra as a potential treatment. Sometimes the cure is already on the shelf, waiting to be found.

Species Are Recovering

Conservation projects are showing real results. Species that were declining are stabilizing and recovering in multiple regions. Nature is resilient when we give it space.

But Here's What I Find Most Hopeful

None of these breakthroughs happened by accident. Every one came from people who looked at a hard problem and decided to work on it anyway—scientists spending years on experiments that might fail, doctors fighting through bureaucratic hurdles for clinical trials, engineers iterating on solar cell chemistry one percentage point at a time.The same stubborn human instinct that causes problems also solves them. Sometimes the same species.You're doing your version of that. Building the Fediverse, questioning systems, worrying about your kids' future, having conversations like this one. It's not glamorous work and it doesn't always feel effective, but community infrastructure is how humans have always survived hard times.The news isn't all bad. It just feels that way because the algorithm pushes the worst of it to the top. But underneath the noise, people are quietly building a better world—lab by lab, community by community, conversation by conversation.Your children will inherit problems, yes. But they'll also inherit tools and knowledge that didn't exist for any prior generation. And they'll have a parent who taught them to pay attention and give a damn.That counts for more than you think.

Look how easy it is to share a Loops video to a group chat with friends on Loops, Mastodon and Pixelfed.

Also, notice how easy it is to completely disable DMs!

Loops has supercharged regular Direct Messages, and made them more like TikTok, Instagram and Messenger.

This is how we bring the fediverse to the masses, by making group chat and private groups more easy to use and familiar.

That is how most people use social media nowadays.

Just wait until Sup launches 😎

#Loops #DirectMessages

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at https://map.citationneeded.news/.

The map contains hundreds of business entities and links to the Trump family (with more being added!), augmented with data from the president’s most recent financial filings to estimate how much money is flowing in. It will be queryable by other researchers/journalists.

Today is announcement day 🔥

Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.

A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.

2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/

4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/

Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.

Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe

Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/

Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub

IDK who needs to hear this, but...

Want to help test pre-release Owncast features? Join us in our Matrix chat to learn how you can try out the new stuff early, and help out the next release.

https://matrix.to/#/#owncast.community:matrix.org

LABR is LIVE!

LABR Pop Up Replays: Pick & Mix 05 with Dgar & Brother Soul (Queensland, Aussie)

#labr #loveabrotherradio #communityradio #fediradio #dj #djlife #drumandbass #house #soulfulhouse #music #radio #owncast #streaming

https://stream.labr.online

@benpate@mastodon.social lol dude, I'm not bothered at all by it. 😁 I figured those folks actively contributed to the spec. I take no offense at all. I'm just happy I get to be a fly in the room man. 😊

@benpate@mastodon.social reading these FEPs and seeing definition of terms always reminds me of reading laws and how things have to be clearly defined. Because communication is so inefficient, especially in text, interpretation is so easy to get incorrect compared to original intent. But it makes new appreciate all the work even more. I absolutely love this idea and greatly appreciate all the work you and others do. Thank you.

Tagging those who contributed to the `Endorse` activity design. Here's an update

https://github.com/EmissarySocial/fep-endorsements

There's more work to do, but it's enough that your input is super valuable. Another round and I'll post to codeberg.

Feel free to share with anyone with informed opinions, and no worries if you're busy/sick/uninterested/whatever - absolutely no obligation to join in 🤓

@scottjenson @DePemig @thisismissem @johannab
@oli @laurenshof @wjmaggos @smallcircles @GavinChait @evan
@iftas @tchambers

We added an extra idiot ( @ozoned@btfree.social ) for this episode. 4 rambling old farts for the price of 3!!

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/kDgyN1ozCf7GAJedKDkb2R

@hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk I resemble that remark! Identically actually.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social tell the kids baaaaa. They'll understand.

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social that is absolutely gorgeous. How long does something like that take start to finish? I can't even draw stick figures.

If anyone has questions for my panel of guests, see 2026.fossy.ca/schedule/prese... , let me know.

I would request it's on the standard FsFd quiz form of nonsense.

Example:

Red, Green, Blue.

Pancakes, pans, or cakes.

Starting to get really excited for #FOSSY ! 10 days until we get to Vancouver. Idk if I'll be able to show off a slide deck while doing the panel, but I'm so excited that I created one just in case.

Only hope folks find it as fun and silly as I intend. 😄

That's my goal though. There's so much going on in the world we have to remember to step back, be silly, laugh, enjoy time with people, forget about all of the difficulties of the world. Let's just come together and have fun.

Ludicrous speed GOOOOOOOO!

IDK, something with logal and maybe others?

#owncast #streaming #videogames #linux #videogames #games #gaming #tst #linuxgaming #gamingonlinux #tech #chatting

https://stream.ozoned.net

@phillycodehound@indieweb.social you going to be joining us?